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Message of hope as 10-party coalition governing SA's #5 Metro beating the odds, delivering turnaround
Nelson Mandela Bay's 10-party coalition is now seven months old and, according to executive mayor Retief Odendaal, has already notched up some remarkable wins. Apart from keeping all partners onside in reputably the largest governing coalition on earth; focused maintenance and fast-tracking of existing projects has removed the very real…
Prof Filatova’s icy Siberian shower on Opposition hopes that 2024 will end ANC rule
SA/Russia expert Prof Irina Filatova sees many parallels in the way people in the two countries are disconnected from economic reality by outdated ideology. The Russian-born and educated historian, academic and author says this fact, along with possible support from Moscow, will ensure the ANC retains political power after SA’s…
Gayton McKenzie (Part 2) - By-election results, Rob Hersov, and the major political change coming to SA
In Part Two of today's early morning interview, Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie offers his insights on critical by-election results in South Africa, including the key message from the Swellendam vote where the PA/DA split vote opened the door for an unlikely ANC win, despite a 20% drop in its…
Gayton McKenzie’s reckoning - PA Leader explains why he’s back in the anti-ANC fold (Part One)
In Part One of an extended early morning interview with the leader of the Patriotic Front, Gayton McKenzie explains why his kingmaking party is set to switch sides (again) in Gauteng - and why this time it’s likely to be for keeps. A central personality in South Africa’s edge-of-the-seat political…
"The evidence is so clear" – Dr Aseem Malhotra on COVID vaccine harms.
Consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra made waves in September 2022 when he published a two-part paper titled 'Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine' in the Journal of Insulin Resistance. Although Malhotra had been a public health advocate for a decade before the publication…
Mashaba rolls dice to bring PA into a rejuvenated Rainbow Coalition - and take back Jhb Metro
Action South Africa, a member of the anti-ANC/EFF Rainbow Coalition, today threw down the gauntlet for other members to bring the Patriotic Alliance back into the fold - and immediately take back control of the Johannesburg Metro. ASA's leader Herman Mashaba served notice of a vote-by-raised-hands motion of no confidence…
Cape Independence about to take a big step with imminent Bill tabled in WC Provincial Parliament
In the past three years, the Cape Independence Advocacy Group has firmly put the topic of Western Cape secession onto the agenda in the SA province that's succeeding where the rest are failing. According to the CIAG's Phil Craig, the separation process is about to be another huge step forward…
BNC#5: COVID: the collapse of scientific integrity after decades of pharmaceutical collusion and public health system failures – Dr Aseem Malhotra
COVID saw an influx of irrational and baseless lockdown restrictions and public health regulations, the devastating effects of which will be felt for decades to come. The unprecedented nature of these measures also signified a radical departure from health guidelines established prior to COVID's arrival. The trap, however, is to…
Wendy Addison on bringing down Leisurenet, two-faced Richard Branson, life after whistleblowing
It's just over two decades since accountant Wendy Addison tipped off SA's Exchange Control authorities that something smelly was happening at Leisurenet, owner of 87 gyms and a darling of the JSE. As a result of her whistleblowing, Addison, a CA (SA), was forced to flee to the UK, accompanied…
It's Parly v Concourt on reforming how SA MPs get elected - politicians, incl CR, applying ‘Stalingrad’
It’s three years since the Constitutional Court instructed Parliament to approve a new Electoral Act that will transform SA’s polity and encourage its best citizens to become MPs. Political parties, including president Cyril Ramaphosa, want none of it, and have applied ‘Stalingrad’ tactics to delay the end of a system…
Premier Winde on why Western Cape outperformance on growth, jobs, security set to continue
The Democratic Alliance's 'Governance Prospectus' is flourishing. The Western Cape province, the only one of nine run by South Africa's official opposition, is already well established as an economic growth and security outlier. Of the 169 000 net new South African jobs created in 2022, 167 000 were in the…
Meet Gcobani Ndzongana, LAND Party leader, EFF co-founder, who wants a broad Left Front and ANC out
The prosperous and peaceful Western Cape resort town of Hermanus was rocked by violent protests in 2018, led by Gcobani Ndzongana, a political activist who helped to create the Economic Freedom Fighters. His LAND Party has grown in the five years since then, a highlight being the victory in a…
Local is lekker again: March's pullback in SA stocks in March makes them a 'buy' - Bacher
It was a bumpy March for investment markets, especially on the JSE, where share prices followed the rest of the world lower - but did not participate in the late bounce. However, Corion's David Bacher reckons that divergence opens up a buying opportunity for active investors, and his house has…
Five years on, five times cleared, Mahloele wants punitive damages from “liar” Holomisa
In 2018, parliamentarian Bantu Holomisa went public with a slew of allegations against Harith founder Tshepo Mahloele - accusing him of being the kingpin in a network of corruption and worse than the Guptas. After being cleared by a fifth successive investigation, this time by the PIC and GEPF, Mahloele…
Meet Dr Marc Liebscher, the German White Knight riding to rescue of Steinhoff's retail shareholders
Steinhoff's management and board were given a bloody nose at December's Annual General Meeting when all the important proposals were voted down because of the opposition of Germany's leading Shareholder Protection association SDK. The investment activist body, established in the 1950s, boasts numerous coups including imploded multinational Wirecard. It speaks…
BNC#5: "By evolution or creation, humans were designed to eat fat and protein" – Prof. Tim Noakes
Professor Tim Noakes' presentation at the BizNews Conference in March detailed the failures of medical science and the imitation scientists who fervently serve at the behest of "The Science". Noakes' grasp of the complexities of the ongoing yet unseen pandemics of diabetes and obesity exemplified a perfect marriage between incontrovertible…
Outliers: Jay Naidoo's story continues - A lifelong fighter for our right to question anything and everything
There’s much to digest from this interview with Jay Naidoo, a now 68-year-old who grew up as the last-born of eight children - and whose life was overturned when Apartheid’s Group Areas Act collided with the location of a modest family home. The social engineering system switched him from medical…
On a quest to give mobility to every African amputee and become a bobsleigh Paralympian – Mike Stevens
Mike Steven’s life changed drastically at the age of 12 when he became a double amputee after being electrocuted at the Vaaldam. After years in hospital, he could return to school, but it was in a wheelchair. Prosthetics changed his life and by the time he finished high school Stevens told…
Meet Tshwane's new mayor Cilliers Brink: Another quick-learning DA Young Lion determined to make impact
At 35, it's tempting to make parallels between Tshwane's new executive mayor Cilliers Brink and his counterparts in Cape Town and uMngeni, better exposed Young Lions of the Democratic Alliance. If anything, though, the legally-trained Pretoria lad faces an even more formidable challenge than counterparts Geordin Hill-Lewis and Chris Pappas…
RW Johnson on CR's myopia; Russian interference in 2024; alternatives to ANC/EFF (IFP anyone?)
Another sublime contribution from South Africa's foremost political scientist RW Johnson. The historian, author and former Oxford Don expands on a BizNews Premium column where he called out SA presidential myopia with the looming "nightmare" scenario of an ANC/EFF coalition running the country after the 2024 Election. Johnson looks at…